COTC - 23 Dec 2026 - It's COLD out there!

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Good morning, Northern Michigan.

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And this is your cup of Traverse City

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for

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the 01/23/2026,

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and it's cold

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out there. I woke up. It was, minus

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four this morning.

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And, I'm gonna make this one a short

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one. Just talk about the weather. Not a

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lot of news stories going on other than

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the weather. So

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let's start with the forecast.

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Today, snow showers widespread

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blowing in snow or blowing snow

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mainly before 10AM,

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high near three.

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It's a high three.

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Wind chill value is as low as minus

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20. Northwest wind

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10 to 15 miles per hour with gust

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as high as 30. Chance precipitation,

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90%.

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Total daytime snow accumulation, one less than one

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half inch possible.

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That's good news.

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Although it's moving around and being as,

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cold as it is, it's dry and it

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blows around really good.

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Tonight, a 40 chance of snow showers mainly

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before 1AM, mostly cloudy with steady temperature around

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zero. Wind chill factors

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as low as minus 12, which is an

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improvement over minus 20.

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West wind are how five miles per hour

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becoming calm after midnight.

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Saturday is gonna be partly

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sunny with a high near eleven. Wind chill

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values as low as minus one. Calm wind

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becoming southwest around five. So

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that's not too bad. I mean, yeah, eleven

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is the highest kinda bad.

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We'll go through the weekend here. Saturday night,

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mostly cloudy with a low around zero, calm

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wind.

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Sunday, a 20% chance of snow showers,

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Mostly cloudy with a high near 15.

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Calm wind becoming northeast

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around five miles per hour. So that's kinda

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weird. A northeast

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wind,

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but, hey. We'll take it. Lake effect doesn't

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happen as much that direction for us anyway.

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Sunday night, 30% chance of snow showers before

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1AM, mostly cloudy with a low around four.

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And,

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Monday, we're getting into the double digits again,

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high near 15.

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So

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that'll, cover the weather for the weekend. Just

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some

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tips.

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I I personally, I have to go today

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and plow some snow.

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Luckily, I have a tractor with a cab

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on it, so I don't have to, sit

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out in the wind.

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But I am planning it out,

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as best I can to,

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minimize the exposure to the cold and the

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wind.

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So my plan is to spend no more

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than thirty minutes at a time out there

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than

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warming up.

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Today is not the day to save fuel.

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Idle your vehicle. If you're got if you

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have to go somewhere,

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just let it warm up properly. Make sure

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all your windows are clear.

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And, you know, just take it easy. Don't,

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don't overstress

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about,

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you know, getting things done out

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outside. You know, don't

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shovel too you know, if you have to

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go shovels, you know, do 15.

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Go warm up. Do another fifteen minutes. Go

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warm up.

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You said if you're driving and

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and, you know, just let your car idle.

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It's,

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it's it's a lot better to spend a

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few extra dollars on fuel than,

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for you to,

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you know, freeze.

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You know, just be careful. Holy crud.

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We don't normally get this kind of temperature

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here.

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So just,

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be careful.

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Looking

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right now at the absolute the current at

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the Traverse City Airport

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And, it's minus three degrees Fahrenheit.

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Wind chill factor minus

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25.

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Holy crud. And,

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of course, the wind is, you know, the

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20 to 30 mile per hour gusts.

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Yeah. 25 miles per hour, it looks like.

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Yeah. West at 18 and gusting to 25.

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So yeah.

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It's it's brutal out there. And, I'm sure

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it's the same

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pretty much anywhere

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here in Northern Michigan.

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And, it looks like the rest of the

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country, at least south of us, is gonna

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get, quite

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a quite an event.

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Unfortunately,

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some ice in the Kentucky and Tennessee area

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is the latest I saw.

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But, that's gonna happen more, you know, over

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the

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over the weekend.

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And,

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so yeah. It's, it's winter. It's January. It's,

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Northern Michigan, at least in our case.

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Or well, I don't know where you're listening

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from, but know where I'm sitting.

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It's cold.

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And my little office here,

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studio

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is keeping up, but, yeah. It's a little

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cooler in here than it, normally would be.

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But,

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well, I'm nice and bundled up. So,

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anyway, be careful out there.

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I will

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talk to you on Monday.

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Hopefully, we, we all

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get to get through this brutal cold.

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And, also,

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gonna be doing a

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a,

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episode over at mikedell.com,

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Mike Dell's World podcast,

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about the blizzard of seventy eight. I know

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I touched on that years ago in that

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show, but,

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I think it's,

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it's relevant since we're experiencing

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I wouldn't call it a blizzard, but we're

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experiencing some extreme weather here. So

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why not reminisce,

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from forty eight years ago?

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This weekend, actually, on Sunday, that will be

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forty eight years,

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since that storm started at least here in

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Traverse City. I know it's a couple days

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later

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on the East Coast.

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But,

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anyway,

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catch me

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on Monday.